{"Are You Real?"}
Fear.
Hate.
Loneliness.
Pain.
These feelings I could never get rid of, the constant crashing of them like waves slamming onto a shore. The only time I was free from these sad feelings was when I was with him, my binded had been my savior and now I don't have him. Everything was numb, as the last of my kind I was alone again.
A golden shield surrounded me as I slept, it kept me safe for a little while. Away from the men who wanted to experiment on me, it was one of the things I could produce as the Last Princess. When I was chosen by the void to become something that I didn't want to be, I was able to make new things. Most I'm still learning, although at this rate I'll never get out of here. "She still hasn't woken up again?" The voice of a man came through the room as my subconscious slowly started to drift off to sleep again.
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My eyes shot open as I heard it, the reason for my fear. It's cold voice made my body react before my brain did. Shooting up as the door slammed open, my shield fell as my eyes glowed maroon. Everything was silent as we met eyes, my fear slowly drifting away as he walked closer to me.
"Nora"
I flinched slightly as his voice drifted through my head before sliding back against the wall behind me, "Are you real?" He gave me a gentle smile before pulling me into a hug causing everything to come crashing down on me in waves. All the pain and sadness washed away just like that, "We need to go, the Dalek they were keeping here got out. My companion...She released it." My eyes shot open as his eyes filled with disappointment.
Gently caressing his cheek, I nodded causing him to pull me up. "This is your Ninth." I muttered causing him to chuckle and nod, "It suits you." I smiled back at him. We rushed out of the cage I had been locked in, the place was void of sound and no lights. "We need to get to the weapons room." He spoke causing me to nod.
We took off running down the hall, "The Dalek? Where is it?" He shook his head as we ended up in the weapons vault. "How did you know I was here?" He turned towards me, before looking down. "The man, when he trapped us, he showed me you. I recognize your shield. I knew it was you and I was so happy you were alive." I nodded as I grabbed the biggest gun there was in the room.
"I don't want to do this, but-" He cut me off by taking the gun from my hands, "Oh yes, lock and load. You won't have too." My eyes filled with tears, his eyes were so old; so sad. "It's been years since you've seen me. I'm so sorry." He placed a hand on my cheek before placing a kiss on my forehead.
"It's all okay, my Nora. We are together again."
I smiled and nodded, causing him to grab my hand and pulled me out of the room. Rushing up the stairs and running further down the hall we met with the Dalek and a blonde girl. I hid behind him as he pointed the gun at the evil creature our people fought to their destruction. Our home gone in a second because of their invasion, my life with the man I loved all because of them.
Sure, The Doctor traveled but at the end of the day he always came home to me. Sometimes bringing his companions to stay with us, to learn about our world. My favorite was Sarah Jane, although Ash came in close second.
I watched as the Dalek stared up at the hole full of sunlight, it was silent as the blonde next to him stared at it with a smile, "Your out, you made it." I couldn't help but seethe in anger, this girl freed the Dalek and would let it roam out about her own planet even though she knew what it could do. I clenched my fist as my other hand grabbed the back of Theta's jacket.
Suddenly it's casing opened revealing the creature within, the blonde stared at the creature in shock as visions of the war came back to me all in one go.
Fear.
Pain.
Hate.
All of these emotions again.
Sadness.
"Get out of the way!" I jumped slightly as Theta shouted and held up the gun. The blonde looked over in shock, "Rose! Get out of the way now!" She stared with her mouth open in shock. "No. Cause I won't let you do this." I stepped up beside my love, my eyes darkened as I looked at the girl.
"That thing killed hundreds of people." She glared at me before turning to the Doctor to guilt trip him. "It's not the one pointing the gun at me." My hands clenched by my side, I knew he would put the gun down. The second most important thing to The Doctor was his companions and he would do a lot for them, only if it involved endangering me would he stop them.
"I've got to do this! I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, OUR people!" He gestured to me causing her eyes to darken as she looked over to me before back to him. "We've got nothing left!" Rose shook her head and turned towards the Dalek. "Look at it." Theta finally looked at it, I could see it but I didn't want to be guilted by it.
The trauma of our home and the life that we once had was to much for me to feel bad for this Dalek. "What's it doing?" The Dalek started reaching for the hole in the ceiling, "it's the sunlight, that's all it wants." I shook my head, "it can't" I snapped as I stared at the damned thing.
"It couldn't kill Van Statton, it couldn't kill me. It's changing. What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?" I wanted to yell and scream at this little girl. She couldn't understand even if it was right in front of her. These things were monsters, hateful creatures that destroyed lives and took away loved ones.
She would never understand.
Theta dropped the gun to his side causing me to frown and grab his hand. I could feel his sadness, see the darkness within; my love. The man who cherished the little things, saved our planet but would never know for he had to bare the burden of a forgotten memory.
"I couldn't. I wasn't." He stared at the Dalek before turning to me, "Oh, their all dead." My eyes filled with tears as he pulled me closer, hugging me tightly.
Our home was gone.
"Why do we survive?" The Dalek asked causing us to pull away, "I don't know" Theta spoke as he stared back at it. "I am the last of the Daleks." I couldn't help but feel wronged by that sentence. "Your not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you, you've absorbed her DNA; your mutating." I spoke causing Rose to look back at us in shock.
"Into what?" It asked causing The Doctor to speak, "Something New. I'm sorry." He spoke sadly causing Rose to look confused, "Isn't that better?" I shook my head. "Not for a Dalek" I spoke causing it to grunt, "I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die." She shook her head as Theta looked at in shock.
I knew it wouldn't want to live that way, it was a Dalek through and through. When it changes, it dies and it's happy that way. "This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!!" She hesitated before speaking, "Do it." The Dalek stared at her, "Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?" She nodded before gulping, "Yep"
"So am I. Exterminate."
Rose took off towards us to hide behind The Doctor as it started to float in the air, using the balls on its side they created a force field which exploded in on itself.
It was all over.
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Walking towards the TARDIS my eyes widened as I rushed up to her. Letting out a laugh, I could feel her hum beneath my fingers. "Little piece of home." I muttered as I turn to Theta who smiled brightly at me and pulled me into a hug. "Better than nothing" I muttered taking in his scent, "Is that the end of it? The Time War?" Rose asked as she looked up at the Doctor.
"We're the only ones left. We win. How about that?"
Rose shrugged, "The Dalek and she survived. Maybe more of your people did too." We both shook our heads, "We'd know in here." He pointed towards his head. "Feels like theirs no one. Only reason I couldn't feel her was because she's special. The Princess." Theta shot a smirk at me causing me to laugh.
"Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere." She shot a glare towards me, as I rolled my eyes. She sure seemed confident for a human who could die at any moment.
Suddenly a boy ran up to us, "We better get out of here. Their closing down the base, Van Statton has disappeared and they're gonna fill it with cement like it never existed." Theta crossed his arms as Rose shot him a look before smirking up at the boy, biting her lip. "About time." I spoke as Theta grabbed my hand. "I'll have to go home." The boy spoke as he looked towards Rose.
"Better hurry up then. Next flight leaves at fifteen hundred hours" Theta spoke causing me to chuckle while Rose had other ideas. "Adam was saying that all his life, he was wanting to see the stars." She hinted with a smirk causing me to frown. "Tell him to go stand outside then." I spoke causing her to glare at me. "He's all on his own DOCTOR." Rose spoke making it clear that she was talking to my Binded and not me.
"I don't like her!" I jumped slightly at the voice, before letting out a snort and patting the poor girl. "I don't like her either, Sexy. But what can we do about it, Theta is the driver." She huffed before speaking again, "He will listen to you." I nodded slightly causing Theta to frown and look from me to Sexy.
"You will have to wait, beautiful. Her time will come."
"He did help." Rose spoke causing the Doctor to huff, "He left you down there." Her eyes widened, "So did you! So what, to save her?!" She snipped back causing him to glare. "What are you talking about? We have to leave!" Adam spoke interrupting them, "Rose, he's a bit pretty." She smirked pretending not to notice. "Hadn't noticed."
The Doctor shook his head and turned to the door, "On your own head." Opening the door, Rose was smiling smugly, having gotten what she wanted. Theta let me in first causing me to gasp and cover my mouth as tears came to my eyes. "She's still beautiful." Theta smiled brightly and wrapped his arms around my waist as Rose came in behind us.
"So who are you anyway?" She asked with a snip, all of us waiting for Adam to bring himself into the TARDIS. "I'm The Princess, although that's kinda weird so you can call me Kate." She glared at me before nodding, "Right. And to The Doctor?"
Before Theta could speak, I rushed out; "His Bestfriend." His head snapped towards me so fast, I think he got whiplash.
"Okay, come on Adam. Tour time!" She giggled and grabbed his hand dragging him out of the console room.
Theta quickly grabbed mine as well and pulled me toward the bedroom, "Why did you tell her that?" He asked as he changed his clothes, his room had stayed the same as we had it before, it seemed both him and The TARDIS didn't want to forget me. "I'll tell you when the time comes, for now I want to sleep in the arms of the man I love." He smiled brightly at me as I walked out in a night dress before gently laying in the bed.
"Yes, my Princess. I love you!"
I hummed happily, finally my mind and body was at peace back in his arms. The arms that always made me feel safe and loved. The arms of My Theta.
"I love you too, Theta."
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I laughed as I ran through the corridor away from the commotion behind me. I knew being the future Princess of a planet wasn't exactly supposed to cause trouble but this was to fun. I could hear his laughter behind me, after looking into the Schism long ago; The Doctor and I had become closer while The Master turned against us. He became weird, more or less mad so The Doctor and I decided to try and make his life better by getting him to laugh and be happy all though our 'pranks' didn't exactly go over well with others.
We most of the time got into trouble and The Master got pissed at me but always seemed to forgive and forget with The Doctor.
Finally coming to the stop, I took a deep breath as The Doctor caught up with me. "Well that was fun." I missed as he laughed, but I knew we would most likely get into trouble later. The Doctor suddenly grabbed my hand and pulled me down the corridor towards the tower. It was our tower, supposed to be closed off to everyone but he had found a secret passage to it.
"Why did you bring me up here?" I asked as he pulled me over to our small bed we had set up. Grabbing my waist, he pulled me down to cuddle, "I just... while we we're there I heard him talking crap about you. I got angry and I just needed to hold you." I smiled gently at the boy as I brushed his hair with a small laugh. "Believe me. We will always have a rivalry because we both care about you. Don't take it to heart, I can handle The Master any day. Especially if it's for you." I muttered causing him to hum as he pushed himself closer to me.
Both of us soon falling asleep in the tower, in each other's arms.
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